Framing the Final Exit

Pulitzer-Prize winning photojournalist Nancy Siesel compares burial rites between different Brooklyn communities in her new show on view through Nov. 28. Photo: Nancy Siesel

Park Slope resident and former New York Times photojournalist Nancy Siesel’s new show, about death and the mourning rituals of Brooklyn’s different ethnic and religious communities, is on display in a fitting venue: a funeral home on Pacific Street. Siesel, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the 9/11 attacks, is no stranger to documenting the grim, but the impetus behind this project—to illustrate the similarities between the way that disparate and sometimes adversarial cultures honor death–is a positive one. Last Rites, Brooklyn, which is sponsored by the Brooklyn Arts Council, will be hanging at the Sealy Cuyler Funeral Home through Nov. 28.